July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain ...

Nearly two and a half centuries ago — in an era of quill pens, muskets and horse-drawn conveyances — America became the first modern democracy, founded on a belief in ...

Today we dedicate this space to a transcription of the of Independence as published in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is ...

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant part to keep partisan passions at bay, constitutional drift fuels partisan ...

Advocates for families of active-duty troops, legal scholars and ex-military leaders critique the decision to deploy U.S.

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a ...

Florida lawmakers decided not to give residents relief on sales or property taxes. Instead, they awarded about $1 billion worth of breaks to businesses like Publix, NASCAR and ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

A little-known lab at the University of Iowa as a special link to one of America's founding documents.The Center of the Book ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.